28 Quotes filtered by scandal
I hope that people know me well enough and realise that I would never do anything to harm the country or anything improper. I never have. I think most people who have dealt with me think I am a pretty straight sort of a guy.
Tony Blair
After the Ecclestone affair.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
But he couldn't have had the time!
Selwyn Lloyd
On John Profumo's affair with Christine Keeler
Category: Sex Scandals
What do these rumours amount to? They amount to the fact that a Minister is said to be acquainted with a particularly pretty girl. I should have thought that were a matter of congratulation rather than enquiry.
Reginald Paget 20/03/1963
On the Proumo affair.
Category: Sex Scandals
The people do not mind fornication but they loathe adultery.
Ramsay MacDonald 13/07/1936
On the abdication of Edward VIII
They who are of the opinion that money will do everything may well be suspected to do everything for money.
Marquess of Halifax
Category: Corruption & Sleaze, Money
A great Party is not to be brought down because of a squalid affair between a woman of easy virtue and a proven liar.
Lord Hailsham 13/06/1963
On the Profumo scandal
Category: Conservative Party, Sex Scandals
I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.
Mandy Rice-Davies 1963
Category: Sex Scandals
The Government is attempting a cover-up.
Richard Nixon 1948
On the Alger Hiss case
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
I have often been accused of putting my foot in my mouth, but I have never put my hand in your pocket.
Spiro T Agnew
Agnew was later indicted on tax evasion charges.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
The unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism.
Edward Heath 15/05/1963
On a payment by Lonrho to Tory MP Duncan Sandys.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze, Capitalism
All the poison that my Hon. friend (Edwina Currie) suggests I would happily take rather than be spread eagled on the floor of the House by her.
Nicholas Fairbairn 14/01/1985
Category: Sex
I must tell my Hon. Friend Miss Janet Fookes) that although I have always been attracted to her I have never actually dared ask her whether she would go to bed with me.
Nicholas Fairbairn 25/01/1985
Category: Sex
I said there had been no impropriety...that was not true and I misled you and my colleagues and the House.
John Profumo 23/03/1963
Category: Sex Scandals, Truth
There was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintance with Miss Keeler.
John Profumo
Category: Sex Scandals
I am always on the job.
Margaret Thatcher 1984
Interview on Aspel & Co, explaining that she lived above the shop at Downing Street
Category: Sex, Foot in Mouth
What do you think of those two then?
Margaret Thatcher
To male advisers, while holding up Page 3 of The Sun in front of them
Category: Sex
Jesus Christ, Peter, what a misjudgement.
Tony Blair 2000
Alleged remark of Tony Blair to Peter Mandelson as the row over his house purchase loan from Geoffrey Robinson unfolded.
Category: Corruption & Sleaze
I do not under any circumstances discuss my relations with the ladies. I am a gentleman, not a hairdresser.
Alan Clark
Discussing his diaries
Category: Sex
